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I'm sure that that statement will annoy some people who have finally figured out this style business and are busily replacing their attributes with style calls, but seriously, this isn't ... Read More

Yes, for every site I build Yes, they solve some problems sometimes No, they are annoying No, they are the worst thing ever invented View Results

I was intrigued by this article in Slate.com, Slate's long tail. By Julia Turner about the book "The Long Tail". The idea is that Web sites have an advantage over brick ... Read More

It has become more and more common to see rounded edges on boxes to try and break up the "boxiness" of CSS layouts. You even see them on About pages. ... Read More

I'm reminded of when Chevrolet tried to sell their "Nova" car in Mexico. For some reason, no one wanted to buy a car that didn't go... Before you buy your ... Read More

I have been working in the Web industry for many years now, most of that time as a full-time Web developer for a corporation. But it's interesting to me how ... Read More

I was just reading this article on Vitamin called The MySpace problem. And just based on the title, I was thinking "There's a MySpace problem?" The only problem I could ... Read More

I got this comment today: Let the world just sit back and rejoice at the wonder of CMS! Then you just type your little heart out, press "save" and be done ... Read More

Firefox 1, Mozilla 1, or Safari 1 Internet Explorer 6 Internet Explorer 5 Netscape 7 Netscape 6 Opera 8 Opera 7 Some other older version Some other newer version Another unlisted View Results

I found this article on Slashdot, and I find it interesting that Dvorak is only just now figuring out that CSS is hard. And he's also learning that it's very ... Read More

I just got the comment "I think that the webmaster means exactly what it says, being a master of the web." But what does that really mean? If you make ... Read More

I spent one day in a meeting drawing out possible layouts for Web sites and then thinking about how I might mark them up in XHTML with CSS. The advantage ... Read More

But getting rid of white space in your HTML can help you with the download times of your pages. Now, don't get me wrong, I am not a proponent of ... Read More

Molly's listed the top 10 hottest men in the Web: Top Ten Male Hotties of the Web, 2006 and I think I agree that there should be more than just ... Read More

I just find it interesting how hot it can get. In one comment we were told that "Not everyone’s an anal retentive coding geek" and that designers are visual. While in ... Read More

It's funny to me how many people don't seem to realize that there are more meta tags than just "keywords" and "description" (some people realize "refresh" exists, too, but they're ... Read More

Sure, Geocities or your ISP's service is free - but do you have enough space? Are there bandwidth issues? Do you have ecommerce? What about password protection or programming? Knowing ... Read More

If you're a Web designer, it will be the first tool you open in the morning and the last one you close at night (assuming you actually leave your desk...). ... Read More

CSS is a really popular topic right now, and everyone wants to know how to use it to design their Web pages. Unfortunately, a lot of us grew up using ... Read More

Yes Yes, but someone else writes the rules No I don't know I don't use Apache View Results

There are lots of complex things you can do with CSS - like positioning and layout. But there are also some simple things like drop-caps that you can do to ... Read More

Okay, it's not really a watermark, but it sure does look like one. You can create an image that is faded, and have it float over the top of your ... Read More

This comment cracked me up: "At my work some web developers believe that URL's should be cryptic to make them appear to be at the cutting edge of design than the ... Read More

But for some reason, many Web designers feel that it's more fun to put the relevant and useful information in hard to find locations, or possibly even omit it from ... Read More

If you are using the Apache Web server (version 1.2 or higher) then you have access to a very useful tool, the mod_rewrite module. This module allows you to control ... Read More

In fact, it's one of the things that many people don't like about CSS is that it's boxy. While it's possible to create Web sites with CSS that aren't boxy, ... Read More

There are some new terms that you might not be familiar with when referring to XML documents. Looking at the DOM tree of an XML document you can see that ... Read More

Not being color blind, I admit that my knowledge of the subject is more from asking my dad lots of questions about being color blind and from reading on the ... Read More

It sometimes seems like the companies and people where I link to do so. They wake up in the morning and say "I haven't changed the URL on that site ... Read More

Yes, it's my top priority Yes, but only after the design is done Sometimes, when I remember No, I don't worry about it View Results

I just love the idea of XForms. This is XML's answer to Web forms. The idea is that forms are just a way of soliciting information, and they should be ... Read More

It's still amazing to me how many Web site designs are clearly built based on what is cool right now. 10 years ago everyone had rainbow colored horizontal rule images. ... Read More

When talking about accessibility we have focused so much on people using screen readers, that it's often easy to forget that the much larger majority of people with bad eyesight ... Read More

Last week, Tim commented: "The one thing that I would love to see is how to use CSS to centre a page. With tables, it is easy and works on ... Read More

Something like 10 years ago, I was working at NETCOM on the Web team, and one of the things we'd put up was a knowledgebase of Technical Support tips for ... Read More

With viruses like SirCam and others, you have to worry about your personal security any time you put up a Web page. Whenever you put something up on the Internet ... Read More